top 50% hacker news stories for 2016-10-29

Total Nightmare: USB-C and Thunderbolt 3

http://blog.fosketts.net/2016/10/29/total-nightmare-usb-c-thunderbolt-3/

10 years ago

814 upvotes – 446 comments

Powerwall 2 and Integrated Solar

https://powerwall.tesla.com/?powerwall2

10 years ago

520 upvotes – 325 comments

How I Became HackerRank 1 in Two Hours

http://williampross.com/became-hackerrank-1-two-hours?ref=yc

10 years ago

373 upvotes – 315 comments

Step-by-step tutorial to build a modern JavaScript stack from scratch

https://github.com/verekia/js-stack-from-scratch

10 years ago

★ 20.2k JavaScript MIT
366 upvotes – 192 comments

Don’t go to art school (2013)

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/dont-go-to-art-school-138c5efd45e9#.87guodhbv

10 years ago

346 upvotes – 198 comments

DMCA exemption for repairs, modifications, research on your vehicle takes effect

http://ifixit.org/blog/8510/car-repair-illegal-dmca/

10 years ago

342 upvotes – 100 comments

ESPN Loses 621,000 Subscribers; Worst Month in Company History

http://www.outkickthecoverage.com/espn-loses-621-000-subscribers-worst-month-in-company-history-102916

10 years ago

330 upvotes – 408 comments

Intel driven MacBook Pros have secondary ARM processor for Touch ID and security

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/28/apples-new-intel-driven-macbooks-have-a-secondary-arm-processor-that-runs-touch-id-and-security/

10 years ago

292 upvotes – 134 comments

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, in 20 minutes (2014) [video]

http://boingboing.net/2014/10/23/thomas-pikettys-capital-in-t-2.html

10 years ago

279 upvotes – 317 comments

Neural Enhance – Super Resolution for images using deep learning

https://github.com/alexjc/neural-enhance

10 years ago

★ 11.8k Python AGPL-3.0
221 upvotes – 51 comments

Dear Matt Mullenweg: An Open Letter from Wix.com’s CEO Avishai Abrahami

http://www.wix.com/blog/2016/10/dear-matt-mullenweg-an-open-letter-from-wix-coms-ceo-avishai-abrahami/

10 years ago

210 upvotes – 170 comments

Photographers of 1870s London Documented Their Disappearing City

http://hyperallergic.com/299912/the-photographers-of-1870s-london-who-documented-their-disappearing-city/

10 years ago

204 upvotes – 33 comments

WordPress creator slams Wix: ‘Your app editor is built with stolen code’

http://venturebeat.com/2016/10/28/wordpress-creator-matt-mullenweg-slams-wix-your-app-editor-is-built-with-stolen-code/

10 years ago

194 upvotes – 70 comments

GraphicsMagick Image Processing System

http://www.graphicsmagick.org/index.html

10 years ago

183 upvotes – 46 comments

Seattle: Highest Minimum Wage, Lowest Unemployment Rate

http://ritholtz.com/2016/10/seattle-highest-minimum-wage/

10 years ago

150 upvotes – 116 comments

Academia, Love Me Back

https://vivatiffany.wordpress.com/2016/10/27/academia-love-me-back/

10 years ago

147 upvotes – 85 comments

Casual Introduction to Low-Level Graphics Programming

http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/2016/10/28/casual-introduction-to-low-level-graphics-programming

10 years ago

137 upvotes – 26 comments

Strategies of Human Mating (2006) [pdf]

http://www.weimag.ch/micha/dc/05_Buss_Strategies%20of%20Human%20Mating.pdf

10 years ago

127 upvotes – 72 comments

WikiWikiWeb is back online

http://wiki.c2.com/

10 years ago

121 upvotes – 36 comments

Frink – A practical calculating tool and programming language

https://frinklang.org

10 years ago

114 upvotes – 24 comments

Adaptive Hardware: Context Aware Interfaces (2013)

https://www.microsoft.com/appliedsciences/content/projects/AdaptiveHardware.aspx

10 years ago

111 upvotes – 35 comments

Liskov's Reading List for Computer Scientists

http://jpirker.com/hlf16-liskovs-reading-list-for-computer-scientists/

10 years ago

109 upvotes – 9 comments

Universal adversarial perturbations

https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.08401

10 years ago

108 upvotes – 46 comments

VirtualBox 5.1.8

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog#v8

10 years ago

107 upvotes – 95 comments

Robert Elder Software Linux Operating System

http://blog.robertelder.org/robert-elder-software-linux-operating-system/

10 years ago

104 upvotes – 14 comments

Clinton Circle

http://clinton.media.mit.edu

10 years ago

103 upvotes – 27 comments

A Moment of Silence for the Black and Brown Talent That Grew on Vine

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/10/28/499681576/vine-ending-grew-black-brown-talent

10 years ago

101 upvotes – 27 comments

Big-O notation explained by a self-taught programmer

https://justin.abrah.ms/computer-science/big-o-notation-explained.html

10 years ago

100 upvotes – 57 comments

The WhatsApp suicide

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37735370

10 years ago

98 upvotes – 83 comments

How a Man’s Bad Math Helped Ruin Decades of English Soccer

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-one-mans-bad-math-helped-ruin-decades-of-english-soccer/

10 years ago

93 upvotes – 30 comments

ICANN’s First Test of Accountability

https://afilias.info/blogs/web-icanns-first-test-accountability

10 years ago

91 upvotes – 33 comments

Apple just told the world it has no idea who the Mac is for

https://medium.com/charged-tech/apple-just-told-the-world-it-has-no-idea-who-the-mac-is-for-722a2438389b

10 years ago

89 upvotes – 36 comments

Was Joomla Sabotaged?

http://www.fionacoulter.com/blog/was-joomla-deliberately-sabotaged/

10 years ago

81 upvotes – 17 comments

GC Pauses and Safe Points in the CLR

http://www.mattwarren.org/2016/08/08/GC-Pauses-and-Safe-Points/

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 4 comments

CRISPR hacks expand uses of gene-editing toolbox

https://spectrumnews.org/news/toolbox/crispr-hacks-expand-uses-gene-editing-toolbox/

10 years ago

79 upvotes – 0 comments

Image hoster pushes 1.8 PB per month through Cloudflare CDN

http://postimage.org

10 years ago

71 upvotes – 45 comments

Tell HN: Enigmail 2.0 to automatically encrypt e-mails

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12823492

10 years ago

70 upvotes – 12 comments
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